> > I've recently submitted a patch to automake so that it can use shtool > > instead of the mkinstalldirs, mdate and install shell scripts. > > Can you please give us a URL for that patch?
The patch can be found on the automake-patches list http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/automake-patches/2002-June/000890.html > I don't know what scpp, > arx, mdate are so it would be nice to have some context here. GNU shtool (http://www.gnu.org/software/shtool) is a set of shell scripts grouped under a single executable, some of which extend those traditionally distributed as part of automake (for example install, mdate and mkinstalldirs). My patch to automake optionally allows people to use shtool scripts instead of these, which is good if people are to use shtool in their package for other purposes. shtool contains a `shtoolize' program to pick only those that you are interested in and build a custom script that only has them (that's why I liked to have shtool support in configure.ac and autoreconf as well). scpp and arx are just two other scripts that shtool provides (for the record, arx provides the ability to build convenience libraries without using libtool, scpp is a preprocessor for C to automatically add prefixes to internal functions and the like). There are also scripts to build tarballs and so on, but at least for now my automake patch only deals with replacing install-sh, mdate.sh and mkinstalldirs. Paolo
